STUDY ABROAD IN GHANA - MAY 2015

We searched for students who wanted a unique experience of immersion in another culture, students who were willing to dispel myths and rumors about Africa and replace them with facts and realities acquired first-hand through social interactions with African people on African soil.

Ghana was the very first British colony in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence from Great Britain on March 6, 1957. This happened under the amazing leadership of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, hosted the Study Abroad in May 2015.

During the Study Abroad trip, students visited the Palace of the Asantehane, the best known Ghanaian traditional King. Ghana has a rich cultural heritage evident in the Kente cloth-draped chiefs covered in real gold whose reigns and kingdoms date back over 500 years. Ghana is a historical name, not an artificially created name that the colonizers imposed.

Interested in learning more about this past trip? Contact eernest @umflint.edu

MAY 2 - 20, 2015 SPRING SEMESTER

With the exception of Senegal, no other African country has the Slave Castle fortresses which have remained to tell the story of how our African American citizens were forcefully removed from their ancestral African homes centuries ago. Twenty years of classroom lectures cannot accomplish what an hour at any of these fortresses can teach a visitor about the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

The trip of a lifetime!

NIGERIA 2009

MASQUERADES (IMO STATE, NIGERIA)

TRADITIONAL WAR DANCE (UMUAHIA WAR MUSEUM)

Past Study Abroad Experiences

Two study abroad trips led by Dr. Ernest Emenyonu in 2006 and 2009 went to Nigeria and Ghana. In 2009, the University of Michigan-Flint students were joined by Univeristy of Michigan-Dearborn students and faculty.